I still write. I need to remind myself of that sometimes. I write everyday. Most of the time only in my head these days, but I am writing nonetheless. For those who have followed my curious career arc from the beginning of this blog, I’ve come a long way, both in physical and emotional distance. […]
When I was six years old my family moved from North Plainfield, NJ — a suburb of NYC with all of the attendant suburban attributes — to Meyersville, NJ, a small town half-located in and surrounded by a The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. We moved into the house formerly owned by my Aunt Sharon, […]
I didn’t get my first cell phone until 2002, and it was a novelty. Up until that time my range of communications was limited to handwritten correspondence, emails, and the 45 foot range of my cordless phone. When I was out at a bar or a restaurant, I talked to the person next to me. […]
It’s hot in the Maple Leaf. Stiflingly hot and I’m having a little trouble catching my breath. And the show hasn’t even started yet. The older black man in the straw hat next to me at the bar is producing a copious amount of smoke from a single cigarette — like a diesel locomotive. There […]
New Orleans made national news on Sunday for a shooting at a second line; it was widely misreported across the country as a Mother’s Day parade, which in my opinion is what gave the story legs. Otherwise it would have just been another shooting in New Orleans. There are so many things that I could […]
It was almost exactly a year ago that I sat at a table in a Creole Soul Food joint in Central City New Orleans that also served to mentor and train at risk youth(If you’re from here, you know where it is, and if your not, it doesn’t really change the story. I won’t name […]
I was standing in six inches of horseshit-scented mud listening to Fleetwood Mac when it hit me: A lone tear escaped my right eye and threatened to fall past edge of my aviators before I quickly wiped it away. It didn’t feel like a tear at first; maybe just an irritation of the eye caused […]
